(December 20, 2014 at 1:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Doesn't fit well within the page? How about "doesn't fit at all"? Unless you're willing to accept that this Jesus was another great calamity to befall the Jews, like the one Josephus goes on immediately to relate.
Then there's the fact that Josephus remained an orthodox Jew throughout his life, which makes it somewhat awkward that he would cream his pants over a Messiah.
As I said, that was just a start. There are many others here better placed to educate you.
Want to know why you don't think it fits at all? Because you- and others who share your view- think the paragraph is about Jesus.
The mentioning of Jesus is only incidental to what the paragraph actually denotes.
The paragraph is a continuation of the exploits of Pontius Pilate. When reading the previous paragraphs, that becomes abundantly clear.
Many of those of you who are on the "Jesus was a Myth" bandwagon mistakenly evaluate such references from an anti-Christian perspective, and use that kind of extreme bias insomuch as not being able to see the forest due to the trees.
Instead of using anti-Christian bias, I suggest you view it from a historical perspective, and then it all makes sense.
